Takeda subsidiary Hatch has promoted entrepreneur in residence Bruce Meadows to head of investments.

Antibiotics developer MGB Biopharma's lead candidate exploits University of Strathclyde research, and it has just raised an undislcosed amount of new capital.

AstraZeneca spinoff Viela has raised nearly $390m in funding and has filed for an initial public offering that would also allow 6 Dimensions Capital to exit.

The pharmaceutical company will replicate the investment it made in venture firm Remiges' $80m first fund, helping it to reach a target of $150m.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

The insurance analytics platform, incubated by insurer ZhongAn, has raised cash from Sequoia Capital China and Kuanping Capital.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

WuXi AppTec took part in a $30m series C round for care provision software producer Huimei Technology that included the latter's parent company, Huimei Healthcare.

Texas Medical Center and Cisco Investments are among the investors that helped the healthcare servies platform take its overall funding to almost $26m.

Stanford-StartX Fund-backed healthcare servies platform Luma Health has taken its overall funding to almost $26m.